Those Who Are Made Can Be Unmade.

What [margaret Thatcher] Made A Play For Was The Acquisitive: Our Greedy Nature. She Set Aside Other Things Like An Identification With Community, Altruism. The Only Collective That She Understood Was: Rally Around And Slay The Enemy.

The More Facts I Can Have, The Better. I Can Operate Very Nicely Between Them, But I Am Not Very Good At Making Things Up. I Am Not Sure How Ethical It Is.

I Am Not A Historian. I Don't See What I Do As Being A Rival To Biography.

Fear Of Commitment Lies Behind The Fear Of Writing.

But An Experienced Reader Is Also A Self-aware And Critical Reader. I Can't Remember Ever Reading A Story Without Judging It.